Great place to paint. Aside from the obvious advantages of food, parking and bathrooms, there are numerous great landscape views, farm buildings galore, historic buildings, and people (this is a favorite stop with bikers and motorcyclists, plus car clubs.
I was trying out my new acrylic paint setup: Guerilla Painter 9x12 box on a tripod. Figuring out how to position my gear, etc. But that all worked fine.
What didn't work so fine was my poor attempt to capture a complex subject that has always interested me: the old crumbling gas station and road house. Too many lines, too many windows. Those who chose the easier side view of that same building did much better. I saw that too, but was too ambitious for my own good.
I'm having a harder time handling heavy body paints again. Hadn't done much if any acrylics for over 30 years until recently. Getting back to body paints after decades of thin fluid watercolor has been a painful learning experience. I'll get there, I'm sure, because I used to be proficient in acrylics and I like them much better than oils. With today's mediums acrylics can imitate anything possible in oil, no need to fuss with turps, slow drying, etc. They're handy, versatile, permanent and fast drying.
Just my sense of the thick paint isn't what I remember. Much harder to "draw" than it used to be. I'll get there, I suppose.
Here's the latest and don't laugh:
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